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Hi, This is my definition of method "add_to_cart" ======================= def add_to_cart count=params[:product][:count] while count.to_i>=0.to_i if params[:product][''dem_quantity''+count.to_s]=="" else @product = Product.find(params[:product][''product_id''+count.to_s]) print @product.name

Hello everyone! I''ve noticed, that the book uses double quotes almost everywhere. It is like <%= javascript_include_tag "prototype" %> I''ve checked the "programming ruby, 2ed" book and found that double quotes are most suited when escape sequences and substitutions are required. Isn''t it more semantically correct to write this code like

I have a model "Childmodel" that belongs_to two other models "Parent1" and "Parent2". "Parent1" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp1" and "Parent2" "has_many :childmodels, :order => :positionp2". i.e. The child is independently positioned within each of its parents. This works fine and gets me the useful

Hi, I''d like to allow users to upload images and store those images in a Postgres database. I''ve looked through the example in "aguile development with rails" which suggests using the MySQL blob field. When I wrote a similar app in Java, we Base64 encoded the file and then stored it as a text field. Is this easy to do in RoR too? Any advice you can give me would

Hi, In my application I want to find out the occurance of substring "http:\\" in the main string "http:\\www.abc.com" Here how to find out whether substring "http:\\" is present in my String? & if substring "http:\\" is present then I want to delete it from main string. How to do this? PLs help me. Thanx in advance. Prash -- Posted via

I''d like to announce acts_as_habtm_list plugin for rails. acts_as_habtm_list is a Ruby on Rails plugin, that can manage ordered lists through a join-table. It is providing almost the same Api as acts_as_list. The position column has to be defined in the join table. You can find additional information at: http://www.inlet-media.de/acts_as_habtm_list/ Install it executing this command

Hi, I am entering value in textbox ("name") on form. Now name field in database is having ''unique'' constraint on it so that no 2 records with same name allowed in database. Now when I m trying to enter same name into database from my form I m getting following error. ================================ Mysql::Error: #23000Duplicate entry ''Prashant''

Hey, am i to stupid to find the information about how to route to a controller in a module? Maybe module support has gone! The controller is under: app/controllers/admin/my_controller.rb The my_controller.rb file looks like this: module Admin class MyController def index render :text => ''Hello!'' end end end How does a route to all controllers under module

Hi, I want to insert onto database the Current DateTime Value into database field "Store_date" with datatype (DATETIME). How to do tihs? I am usiing hidden variable into my form as follows:- ======================= <%= hidden_field("store", "store_date", :value =>:datetime ) %> ======================= But when I m submmittng form I couldn''t find

I''m trying to be a good rails developer and fix DRY violations as i find them. However, i''m trying to fix this one, i cant seem to get it to work. I have two tables A and B that have a one-to-one relationship. Table B belongs_to Table A. Table A has_one Table B. I''m creating instances of Table A in different places, depending on the controller. However, for each

Sorry if this is a complete newbish question, but I''m trying to wrap my head around creating custom classes in my rails webapp. I''m normally a Java developer, but I figured I''d give RoR a try and see how I like it, and whether it would be useful for production use with a new client. Anyways, what are the best practices for custom classes? Where and/or how do I create

I''m very new to Rails. I''ve been reading Agile Web Dev for a while and read up on ruby, but I''m still learning. I designed a website for someone for an engineering shop. New projects had to be added manually. Well, I figured this would be a great canidate for railifying! I have the form working perfectly, you can add your data and get it in a table, and listing

Hello, I have a situation where an ''employee'' belongs to a ''department'' and have setup the relationship as follows. class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :foregin_key => "department_id" validates_associated :department_id end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees def validate_on_update

Hi, I am new to ROR. I have created a form with foru fields in ROR. Now its working fine for all CRUD operations. But I want to validate data on form for "validates_presence_of" validation. How to do this? I tried it by putting line "validates_presence_of :description" . But its not working. Its throws error like "undefined method `each'' for

Hi, I am writing following line in my code:- ================= @product1=Product.find(:all, :conditions => ["id = ? ", params[:product][''product_id''+count.to_s]]) print @product1.inspect =========================== So I am getting on console following output. ========================== [#<Product:0x3cd61c8 @attributes={"demand"=>nil,

hi all how to parse such email string to a array: #-------------------------------------------- "joe black"<joe_1@joe_black.com> joe_2@joe_black.com, joe_3@joe_black.com #-------------------------------------------- seems emails from user input include various format. and i have to split them to a array. any idea? regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I have some values on my webpage displaying like 1.22333333333 2.33333344444 2.33377777777 etc. Here I want to display values upto 2 decimal places correct. i.e, 1.22333333333 should be dislayed as 1.22 2.33333344444 should be dislayed as 2.33 2.33777777777 should be dislayed as 2.34 & so on.... How to do this in ruby????? Is there any function??? Thanx in advance. Prash --

Hi, I want to disable textbox in my page so that user can not modify its contents. How can we do that in ruby? Thanx, Prash -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I populate a couple of text_field_tag''s with data from an AciveRecord object. Some fields are editable and at the end of the page there''s a submit button. I want the new values to be updated in the DB but by default my original values are stored again. How do i go about doing this? thanks/jens AIM: jens.tinfors@mac.com Skype: jtinfors

Hallo, what links would you recommend for an advanced programmer, who wants to know something about the basic idea and architecture of Rails. That''s no question for tutorials or howtos, but rather for theoretical documents and field reports. Can you help me? -- Norman Timmler http://blog.inlet-media.de